PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Social Desirability Bias, Hindsight Bias, Baffin Island
22 Mar 2013
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Experimental methods; lets us make statements about the cause and effect. Plane of observation; that scientists work on, watch, and observe patterns of variables and behaviors: variables. Conditions ( drug vs. placebo, time-limit vs. no time limit) Which can take on 2 or more values. Anything less than this by modern standards by considered non-experimental when asked to evaluate particular study Anything less than that is deemed non- experimental having less than one variable. The interdependent variable in my study isn"t the only independent variable in the world and my dependant isn"t the only one in the world. Dependant children have certain effects on mothers children who do not tolerate being alone with a stranger will evoke a certain response from a mother at a certain situation. Group of rats deprived them of food for certain hours and then expose them with and count the number of food pallets they eat one way to measure hunger.
